What new impulses are currently emanating from artistic research and curatorial concepts of cultural producers for the perspective of mediators? In this year's series of lectures, we would like to present and familiarise ourselves with mediation formats (exhibitions, workshops, lecture performances, films) that can be described as the production of knowledge or as interventions in existing knowledge systems. We will test what it means to leave the lecture theatre and hold some of our sessions in the rooms of the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art.

We want to discuss whether and to what extent spatial, medial or perspectival shifts enable patterns of perception that make the familiar recognisable in its fabrication and allow productive, different connections. In doing so, we assume that working in the cultural field, as well as in the school context, entails the necessity of constantly opening up new areas of knowledge. But what happens in a classroom, for example, when the usual sorting of knowledge is disrupted and thwarted by an educational concern relating to migration?